think smoking a pipe would be awesome

 

come out of the closet hipster

 

Since I don't smoke I'm not worried about this one. Actually, probably the only reason I like pipes is because its what my grandfather smoked and I liked the smell of it.

 

To be a true hipster, you have to smoke, at least cigarettes, but preferably weed too.

 

*But the whole "my grandfather smoked and I liked the smell of it" sounds like a hipster defense to me...

 

..."my grandfather liked skinny jeans and he always picked up the flappers."

..."my grandfather liked PBR and he worked in a factory in Wisconsin."

..."my grandfather went to art school and my mom was his printmaking instructor."

So that I can better understand you're answer,  where do you get this information?  Hipsters live in choice neighborhoods?  What is your definition of a choice neighborhood?  retire before 30??  Hell, before you can retire you need to have a job!

 

Mission District, which has become one of the most expensive/competitive places for housing in the United States. You don't need a job if you have a trust fund and a good portfolio manager. ;) I didn't think the retired under 30 crowd existed, but lord it does!

 

I doubt most Midwestern hipsters live in choice neighborhoods (outside Chicago's Wicker Park), at least not in big numbers. Though does OTR have a good number of hipsters? That's a choice neighborhood by Ohio standards. Cincinnati is the next Oakland.

 

Only one neighborhood in the three cities mentioned.. (side eye)  Are those 100% those are residents?  Or are those coming into the neighborhood to party, hangout etc.

 

I don't know many that label themselves as hipsters and have trust funds.  Who are these people in the Under 30 and retired category.  I want to meet them!  I want to know how they did, so I can retire at 50!

Nobody labels themselves "Hipster".

Nobody labels themselves "Hipster".

 

I'm going to disagree.    Just go to a local hipster venue where they will no doubt be in deep discussion about how mainstream has failed, while tweeting on the "next big thing" smart phone and wearing the same non conformist "uniform".

^^We could go the obvious New York route, but everyone here knows about the jacked rents in Williamsburg, Park Slope, etc. I bet there are a lot of retired under 30 crowd in Brooklyn these days (or working in jobs with high income/low hours that are close to it).

 

Hipsters are not 100% of the Mission residents due to rent control and some long-standing native holdouts (thank God), but it's trending that way (natives are leaving in big numbers). These are San Francisco hipsters, meaning real money, and lots of it. There's no faking it since landlords do their homework and there is a line out the door in the hundreds. No one lives there cheaply unless they've been there 20 years and have rent control. New York has gotten similar. It's best to avoid hipster neighborhoods if you value your sanity!

 

Park Slope had a write-up in the popular New York hipster blog (already linked here, but it's a gold mine):

 

http://diehipster.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/park-slope-parents-vow-to-change-brooklyn/

Nobody labels themselves "Hipster".

 

I'm going to disagree.    Just go to a local hipster venue where they will no doubt be in deep discussion about how mainstream has failed, while tweeting on the "next big thing" smart phone and wearing the same non conformist "uniform".

 

Second this. A lot of real deal hipsters are owning the label now. That's a sign of how big this culture has gotten. Being a hipster is no longer shameful. Now that it's big in the Midwest (even Detroit), it's acceptable everywhere. I know it sounds crazy, but Ohio is the next hipster central!

If hipsters are calling themselves hipsters now, it is another sure sign the movement is dead. Rule #1 of being a legit hipster always has been and always will be denying you are one. Rule #2 is saying you hate hipsters.

I'm post-hipster.

 

:mrgreen:

^^I don't know about that. I consider it similar to how girls call each other sluts. A movement can't be dead if it's mainstream.

from yesterday's NY Times. this explains everything!

 

How to Live Without Irony

By CHRISTY WAMPOLE

 

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/how-to-live-without-irony/?src=me&ref=general

 

If irony is the ethos of our age — and it is — then the hipster is our archetype of ironic living.

 

The hipster haunts every city street and university town. Manifesting a nostalgia for times he never lived himself, this contemporary urban harlequin appropriates outmoded fashions (the mustache, the tiny shorts), mechanisms (fixed-gear bicycles, portable record players) and hobbies (home brewing, playing trombone). He harvests awkwardness and self-consciousness. Before he makes any choice, he has proceeded through several stages of self-scrutiny. The hipster is a scholar of social forms, a student of cool. He studies relentlessly, foraging for what has yet to be found by the mainstream. He is a walking citation; his clothes refer to much more than themselves. He tries to negotiate the age-old problem of individuality, not with concepts, but with material things.

 

He is an easy target for mockery. However, scoffing at the hipster is only a diluted form of his own affliction. He is merely a symptom and the most extreme manifestation of ironic living. For many Americans born in the 1980s and 1990s — members of Generation Y, or Millennials — particularly middle-class Caucasians, irony is the primary mode with which daily life is dealt. One need only dwell in public space, virtual or concrete, to see how pervasive this phenomenon has become. Advertising, politics, fashion, television: almost every category of contemporary reality exhibits this will to irony.

Bah, you just beat me to it!

 

This paragraph in the article frightened me

 

"Look around your living space. Do you surround yourself with things you really like or things you like only because they are absurd? Listen to your own speech. Ask yourself: Do I communicate primarily through inside jokes and pop culture references? What percentage of my speech is meaningful? How much hyperbolic language do I use? Do I feign indifference?"

 

Dear god...I think I might be a hipster

It was 2-3 years ago that I started purging anything ironic from my life. All those t-shirts I bought in college from the thrift store wound up right back there. Once I spent enough time in the full-time work world I realized that the ironic stuff wasn't cool; it was just insulting.

^^^ Interesting article, if a bit overstating the gravity of the issue. This part at the end stuck out at me as something I have tried to convey (even in this thread), but nowhere near as impactfully:

People may choose to continue hiding behind the ironic mantle, but this choice equals a surrender to commercial and political entities more than happy to act as parents for a self-infantilizing citizenry.

 

I think she may be overstating things again, but the fact is you are failing if you are, e.g., expressing your anti-consumerist ethics through ironic materialism. Self-aware inauthenticity does not somehow yield authentic substance. This is the hipster fallacy.

 

I hadn't thought of it as a defense mechanism, but that is a good insight.

 

Edit: Here is where I said something like that on the first page of this thread:

self-consciousness of absurdity does not erase or redeem the absurdity.

 

I didn't explicitly extend the principle to consumerism or politics, but the maxim fits all fields of irony. It is especially relevant to things like that which should obviously be considered and acted upon with conviction. It is true, though, that many hipsters get serious about things like veganism and green transportation. We shouldn't discount that.

If I sell something to someone or get free promotion from them, I definitely don't care if it was done ironcially. I still got your money.

What sucks is you have to buy really expensive clothes in order to avoid buying stuff with logos. 

Check this out: I have very very non-hipster friends who will say things like "I'm going out in OTR tonight so I am wearing my hipster outfit!" This is done and said with total sincerity, without a hint of irony.

Obtuse is the new ironic?

I went to Guitar Center last night.  3 of the staff were mustachio'd hipsters.  First the dude working the door, then the guy in the microphone/keyboard dept, then the roving salesman trying to sell you a guitar or bass.  Each was going for the molestache creeper look.  I don't know how you have a conversation about clip-on microphones or ask if that Jaguar comes in yellow sunburst from such a character.  At least none of them called me "man" or "my man" unlike the wannabe California guys that used to work there. 

 

In the back some dude was "shopping" for a keyboard with his girlfriend.  She was playing chopsticks and Heart & Soul with complete earnestness. 

 

^Movember?

Ummmm, T'pau's Heart and Soul? That's pretty cool actually. I wonder if she knows "I Can't Wait". Man I want to hear dogs bark the melody of "I Can't Wait" so bad.

I was told the other day I am quasi-hipster because my glasses are a little thicker than wire rims, I wear modern fit dress pants and shirts, like to wear sweaters with collared shirts and ties, wear jackets/coats from The Gap, own a fedora, drink craft beer, like the city, have a beard, try different foods, think smoking a pipe would be awesome, and don't mind vinyl records.

 

I found this to be absurd as I've never drank PBR, have no tattoos/piercings, work an entry-level government job, and have never bought an article of clothing to wear seriously from a thrift store in my entire life. Heck, most of my wardrobe consists of stuff I bought on sale at Kohl's.

 

I overheard a guy at work call me a "hipster."

 

It was because I don't like cover bands.

Sweet Juniper is one of the big Detroit hipster blogs. It's about a stay-at-home dad who left behind his career to dress up his kid in Detroit, and well, do this blog:

 

http://www.sweetjuniper.com

Check this out: I have very very non-hipster friends who will say things like "I'm going out in OTR tonight so I am wearing my hipster outfit!" This is done and said with total sincerity, without a hint of irony.

 

Ten years ago, could you imagine hipsters in Over-the-Rhine?

 

I have a lot of problems whenever I go to hipster venues. People come up and start getting in my face, and girls act ridiculous around me. Just last weekend at a terrible hipster bar, a girl interrupted me while I was talking to another girl, called me an asshole, and then started flirting with me. Only hipsters do this crap. I guess being the only masculine guy in the bar throws them off.

 

Her hipster guy friend comes up to me after a big argument with her that ended in a slapping match (she was clearly getting off on this like 50 Shades of Grey), and says "she just needs to get laid." Hipster game is terrible. It does more to turn you off than anything else.

^You sure you weren't in Mt. Adams?

honestly, what is the obsession with 'hipsters' - it's just a style fad or something

 

who cares...

 

^Makes people feel better about themselves to come up with some "other" group to blame their problems on.  Not allowed to use the Jews for that anymore.

^You sure you weren't in Mt. Adams?

 

Mt. Adams = OTR.  There really isn't much hipster left south of about 13th street on a weekend. That story sounds like quite the bro-fest.

Hipsters are basically just poseurs anyway. Old punks, metalheads and skaters have seen it all before.

Yeah but somehow the poser has been elevated above the authentic artist or fan.  The fuss necessary to assemble all the knowlege of a critic but then rather than writing a critique for a publication simply wearing stupid clothes and copping an attitude is in fact the art. 

honestly, what is the obsession with 'hipsters' - it's just a style fad or something

 

Again, it's not about style. It's about acting like a teenager until your 30's.

Yeah but somehow the poser has been elevated above the authentic artist or fan.  The fuss necessary to assemble all the knowlege of a critic but then rather than writing a critique for a publication simply wearing stupid clothes and copping an attitude is in fact the art. 

 

This is true. We live in a culture where poser is more respectable (in some circles) than having real talent. This crosses across a lot of mediums.

^You sure you weren't in Mt. Adams?

 

Mt. Adams = OTR.  There really isn't much hipster left south of about 13th street on a weekend. That story sounds like quite the bro-fest.

 

Mission, no bros, just a lot of douchebags, especially female douchebags.

Yeah but somehow the poser has been elevated above the authentic artist or fan.  The fuss necessary to assemble all the knowlege of a critic but then rather than writing a critique for a publication simply wearing stupid clothes and copping an attitude is in fact the art. 

 

This is true. We live in a culture where poser is more respectable (in some circles) than having real talent. This crosses across a lot of mediums.

 

Like people telling me I should listen to Puff Daddy's music because he's a good businessman.

So that I can better understand you're answer,  where do you get this information?  Hipsters live in choice neighborhoods?  What is your definition of a choice neighborhood?  retire before 30??  Hell, before you can retire you need to have a job!

 

Mission District, which has become one of the most expensive/competitive places for housing in the United States. You don't need a job if you have a trust fund and a good portfolio manager. :wink: I didn't think the retired under 30 crowd existed, but lord it does!

 

I doubt most Midwestern hipsters live in choice neighborhoods (outside Chicago's Wicker Park), at least not in big numbers. Though does OTR have a good number of hipsters? That's a choice neighborhood by Ohio standards. Cincinnati is the next Oakland.

 

I love how you danced around my question and didn't answer it.  I didn't honestly think you could answer it.  Mission District?  Child, boo!!  Again, what is your definition of a "choice neighborhood"?  Are you confusing the overall popularity of a neighborhood and quantifying that as a hipster neighborhood??  Who has a trust fund?  Most people I know or that we've profiled as "hipsters" are broke, living pay check to pay check, have several room mates and are barely getting by.

 

Who are this people with trust fund managers who retired under 30?

 

OTR is a "choice" neighborhood?  Cincinnati is the next Oakland?  What are you smoking and where do you get this information? Forbes??

^To a certain extent, OTR is a choice neighborhood. Apartments are gobbled up much faster than they can be produced. At the same time, the rents are typically not outrageous and there are still a lot of low income housing, so it is an interesting dynamic right now.

 

Also, I would say certain sections/bars in OTR are similar to Mt. Adams, but by no means all of it. Neons and Japps on the weekends definitely resemble Mt. Adams. Lackman is just too busy to actually go to on weekends because it's so small. I find solace in MOTR and the occasional visit to Drinkery (only when it's completely dead and I can just hang out with friends and talk to the bartenders). Of course there is the occasional bad experience (Pedal Wagon crowd, anyone?) at MOTR, but it's usually fun.

I have a lot of problems whenever I go to hipster venues. People come up and start getting in my face, and girls act ridiculous around me. Just last weekend at a terrible hipster bar, a girl interrupted me while I was talking to another girl, called me an asshole, and then started flirting with me. Only hipsters do this crap. I guess being the only masculine guy in the bar throws them off.

 

Her hipster guy friend comes up to me after a big argument with her that ended in a slapping match (she was clearly getting off on this like 50 Shades of Grey), and says "she just needs to get laid." Hipster game is terrible. It does more to turn you off than anything else.

 

In Chicago the hipster bars are usually pretty chill, although there are a couple that can be a bit much. The most annoying bars in Chicago are by far the fratty/bro bars in Lincoln Park and Lakeview or the scenester bars in River North. Never really had any issues with annoying hipsters in Cleveland either.

^San Francisco hipsters are a very different breed. A housing shortage and skyrocketing rent creates a very different dynamic. The average rent for an apartment in San Francisco's Mission District is nearly $3,000 a month and rising fast. These are wealthier, more cut-throat hipsters and you're starting to see it in the bars. I've noticed a change just in the past six months. The tech boom is creating a lot of fast money, and you need real money to live in the Mission if you're coming from out of state. This isn't a place for paycheck-to-paycheck people. How many working class people can afford that rent?

 

http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2012/05/14/the_bad_news_as_suspected_rental_rates_have_increased_dramatically_over_the_past_year.php

 

Chicago seems much lower-key, and probably less douchey. I don't know enough Chicago hipsters to have a good sample size, but the ones I have met have been OK...not people I'd drink with, but certainly not people I'd get in a fight with.

OTR is a "choice" neighborhood?  Cincinnati is the next Oakland?  What are you smoking and where do you get this information? Forbes??

 

Hey, the Forbes hipster list was accurate. It's no Businessweek, but that magazine does a lot of good work!

^San Francisco hipsters are a very different breed. A housing shortage and skyrocketing rent creates a very different dynamic. The average rent for an apartment in San Francisco's Mission District is nearly $3,000 a month and rising fast. These are wealthier, more cut-throat hipsters and you're starting to see it in the bars. I've noticed a change just in the past six months. The tech boom is creating a lot of fast money, and you need real money to live in the Mission if you're coming from out of state. This isn't a place for paycheck-to-paycheck people. How many working class people can afford that rent?

 

http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2012/05/14/the_bad_news_as_suspected_rental_rates_have_increased_dramatically_over_the_past_year.php

 

Chicago seems much lower-key, and probably less douchey. I don't know enough Chicago hipsters to have a good sample size, but the ones I have met have been OK...not people I'd drink with, but certainly not people I'd get in a fight with.

Speaking from personal experience??  This methodology is flawed as they do not include square footage or bedrooms.  Nor the number of occupants in each unit.

 

Like most cities, people who are not earning a lot of money, tend to have roommates so they can live in suppossed/alleged hip neighborhoods, because they cannot afford to live alone.

 

OTR is a "choice" neighborhood?  Cincinnati is the next Oakland?  What are you smoking and where do you get this information? Forbes??

 

Hey, the Forbes hipster list was accurate. It's no Businessweek, but that magazine does a lot of good work!

 

Of course, you, would think that.  Yet it still proves nothing!

 

Would you like more rope dear?

Speaking from personal experience??  This methodology is flawed as they do not include square footage or bedrooms.  Nor the number of occupants in each unit.

 

Like most cities, people who are not earning a lot of money, tend to have roommates so they can live in suppossed/alleged hip neighborhoods, because they cannot afford to live alone.

 

Talk to people who live there, talk to brokers, and talk to real estate agents. I don't know anyone in SF who lives by themselves anymore. People are paying $1000 a month to rent living room couches in the Mission. Those numbers are extremely low now (that was Q1 2012, which was before the big spike last summer). Listing prices are base prices. Bidding takes place since it's so competitive in SF. A 2-bd listed at $3000 a month can easily end up $4000-$6000 a month after open houses with hundreds of applicants. The summer was a bloodbath, and every one of these neighborhoods is much higher than this now. Open bedrooms in four-bedroom places are now being listed around $1500 a piece (and this is college-style shared living at best), and landlords lie about places being in the Mission (some as far as two miles away) since it's that desirable to these kids. It's worse than Noe Valley now, and pushing Castro territory:

 

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/3385194936.html

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/3405697658.html

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/3422229487.html (not even in the Mission)

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/3412113255.html

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/3426306302.html

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/3427597300.html

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/3421787894.html (not even in the Mission)

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/3423773196.html

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/3414893939.html

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/3410111883.html

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/3429769496.html (seven bedrooms and still insane)

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/3414918853.html

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/3423505486.html

 

You think you can rent there without money? It doesn't matter how many roommates these kids have, they're still paying out the teeth. That listing for seven bedrooms still had each occupant paying over $1200 a month. And of course, the best way to make money in SF is to rent to hipsters in the Mission! Some hipsters do have a ton of money, whether from a huge inheritance, trust fund, smart investment in a start-up, early equity from facebook, etc., etc. It's certainly possible to retire by 30 if you get lucky and play the cards right. That's kind of the Bay Area dream. This is the land of fast money.

 

*This has spilled over into Oakland now which is rapidly gentrifying and will be unrecognizable in five years. Things change fast in the Bay, much faster than in other metro areas:

 

http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Rents-rise-in-S-F-Oakland-San-Jose-3961019.php

 

Cincinnati is the next Oakland 2008, before the big social media boom. It of course won't heat up like Oakland 2012.

Reverting back to an earlier explanation I had for the insidious rise of hipsterdom...it's the gradual fading of the fallout of the Vietnam War.  Again, if you were my age (and not much younger), and grew up in an area (i.e. not a wealthy area) where the young men were killed and injured in large numbers, the fallout from Vietnam was a big part of growing up.  I think we had a very strong sense as boys that we would be drafted for some future war and if we were drafted we would very likely be killed.  We had some echo of that seriousness that hung over our upbringings, even though the draft never returned.  But by 1990 or so people weren't talking about Vietnam anymore so if you were born from about 1985 onward it probably wasn't part of your upbringing.  The draft never returned with the Iraq war and the number of fatalities and serious injuries was relatively low.  Also, without the return of the draft, the military drew a larger part of its force from lower income people, meaning the circa-2005 college-educated hipster likely had minimal contact with people who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. 

 

This interview with Iggy Pop and The Stooges spends some time talking about the effect the Vietnam War had on the evolution of rock & roll so far as it motivated anyone who believed in music to push that much harder:

The Henry Rollins Show S02 E04 part 1 of 2

 

And here it is, the greatest rock record of the Vietnam era:

The Stooges- Fun House [Full Album]

 

This album is all about in the face of the lottery of the draft attempting to fool yourself that turning to the lottery of drug abuse is somehow a nobler way to go out. 

 

 

 

 

 

Speaking from personal experience??  This methodology is flawed as they do not include square footage or bedrooms.  Nor the number of occupants in each unit.

 

Like most cities, people who are not earning a lot of money, tend to have roommates so they can live in suppossed/alleged hip neighborhoods, because they cannot afford to live alone.

 

Talk to people who live there, talk to brokers, and talk to real estate agents. I don't know anyone in SF who lives by themselves anymore. People are paying $1000 a month to rent living room couches in the Mission. Those numbers are extremely low now (that was Q1 2012, which was before the big spike last summer). Listing prices are base prices. Bidding takes place since it's so competitive in SF. A 2-bd listed at $3000 a month can easily end up $4000-$6000 a month after open houses with hundreds of applicants. The summer was a bloodbath, and every one of these neighborhoods is much higher than this now. Open bedrooms in four-bedroom places are now being listed around $1500 a piece (and this is college-style shared living at best), and landlords lie about places being in the Mission (some as far as two miles away) since it's that desirable to these kids. It's worse than Noe Valley now, and pushing Castro territory:

 

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/3385194936.html

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/3405697658.html

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/3422229487.html (not even in the Mission)

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/3412113255.html

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/3426306302.html

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/3427597300.html

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/3421787894.html (not even in the Mission)

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/3423773196.html

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/3414893939.html

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/3410111883.html

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/3429769496.html (seven bedrooms and still insane)

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/3414918853.html

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/3423505486.html

 

You think you can rent there without money? It doesn't matter how many roommates these kids have, they're still paying out the teeth. That listing for seven bedrooms still had each occupant paying over $1200 a month. And of course, the best way to make money in SF is to rent to hipsters in the Mission! Some hipsters do have a ton of money, whether from a huge inheritance, trust fund, smart investment in a start-up, early equity from facebook, etc., etc. It's certainly possible to retire by 30 if you get lucky and play the cards right. That's kind of the Bay Area dream. This is the land of fast money.

 

*This has spilled over into Oakland now which is rapidly gentrifying and will be unrecognizable in five years. Things change fast in the Bay, much faster than in other metro areas:

 

http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Rents-rise-in-S-F-Oakland-San-Jose-3961019.php

 

Cincinnati is the next Oakland 2008, before the big social media boom. It of course won't heat up like Oakland 2012.

 

Le Sigh.  Once again you do not answer my direct question.  You may want to run for Republican office in the near future, 'cause you certainly know how to avoid a question.

 

Honey, you've proved my point.  Due to the economy, jobs and personal financial situations, people cannot afford to live alone in popular urban neighborhoods.  However, that in no way indicates who types of people live in those neighborhoods.

 

Posting a Craigslist ad proves nothing, show me leases!  Just like a house, a landlord can ask for whatever, that doesn't guarantee that is the final rental price.

 

So what proof do you have that this neighborhood is hipster central and that the majority living here are hipsters?

 

Based on the information you've provided I highly doubt that those people living in an established neighborhood are hipsters or the mythical hipsters with trust funds are living in choice neighborhoods.

 

I bet you ♣ baby seals.

I bet you ♣ baby seals.

 

I'm not heartless.  It was only one.......

Hunting game...ironically:

 

Hipsters Who Hunt

 

I think the evolution of the new lefty urban hunter goes something like this:

 

2006: Reads Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, about the ickyness of the industrial food complex. Starts shopping at a farmer’s market.

2008: Puts in own vegetable garden. Tries to go vegetarian but falls off the wagon.

2009: Decides to only eat “happy meat” that has been treated humanely.

2010: Gets a chicken coop and a flock of chickens.

2011: Dabbles in backyard butchery of chickens. Reads that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg decided to only eat meat he killed himself for a year.

2012: Gets a hunting permit, thinking “how hard can it be? I already totally dominate Big Buck Hunter at the bar.”

 

Hunting is undeniably in vogue among the bearded, bicycle-riding, locavore set. The new trend might even be partly behind a recent 9 percent increase from 2006 to 2011 in the number of hunters in the United States after years of decline. Many of these new hunters are taking up the activity for ethical and environmental reasons.

*I buy eggs from a coworker, who has a coop full of chickens who are fed refuse from a sports bar.

Hunting game...ironically:

 

Hipsters Who Hunt

 

I think the evolution of the new lefty urban hunter goes something like this:

 

2006: Reads Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, about the ickyness of the industrial food complex. Starts shopping at a farmer’s market.

2008: Puts in own vegetable garden. Tries to go vegetarian but falls off the wagon.

2009: Decides to only eat “happy meat” that has been treated humanely.

2010: Gets a chicken coop and a flock of chickens.

2011: Dabbles in backyard butchery of chickens. Reads that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg decided to only eat meat he killed himself for a year.

2012: Gets a hunting permit, thinking “how hard can it be? I already totally dominate Big Buck Hunter at the bar.”

 

Hunting is undeniably in vogue among the bearded, bicycle-riding, locavore set. The new trend might even be partly behind a recent 9 percent increase from 2006 to 2011 in the number of hunters in the United States after years of decline. Many of these new hunters are taking up the activity for ethical and environmental reasons.

 

Reminder that it's 2012 and at this point "hipster" refers to practically anyone in their 20s who doesn't listen to Phish/Michael Buble/ICP.

 

https://twitter.com/donglord69/status/178698557002498048

 

(via CincyCapell)

"lots of hipsters are essentially downwardly mobile young people who are putting themselves to some practical use, however small or marginal, instead of sitting around getting obese."

 

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/jacobs/exemplary-hipsters/